Prosperity defused German antisemitism until the First World War reignited it

Evidence

By the turn of the century, the effects of the swindles in the seventies had run their course and an era of prosperity and general well-being, especially in Germany, put an end to the premature agitations of the eighties. Nobody could have predicted that this end was only a temporary respite, that all unsolved political questions, together with all unappeased political hatreds, were to redouble in force and violence after the first World War. The antisemitic parties in Germany, after initial successes, fell back into insignificance; their leaders, after a brief stirring of public opinion, disappeared through the back door of history into the darkness of crackpot confusion and cure-all charlatanry. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 159

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader toolkit theme that economic crises rather than fixed prejudice drive antisemitic mobilization — relevant to how later Islamophobia readings treat material conditions as triggers.